What do u guys think of the intel centrino processor, how does it fare handling games and other applications?" does it fare more toward performance or battery saving? What type of wireless is built in?
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What do u guys think of the intel centrino processor, how does it fare handling games and other applications?" does it fare more toward performance or battery saving? What type of wireless is built in?
Centrino is a platform not a proccessor
(its the chipset, P-M, and Pro wireless).
Pro Wireless built in can be any type of B/G/A and still be centrino. So the wireless is generally very good.
If its just games, the P4 will be slightly better, however the batterylife + size + heat everything is is worse. If you get a good graphics a newer 533mhz P-M at 2.0ghz you'll have no problems what so ever. A quick google has something like this:
http://www.ajp.co.uk/?show=wide_info&id=Z71V-H
good audio, good graphics (really good for a laptop), CPU is good.
But a 3.2ghz P4 would still be slightly faster, however when looking at batterylife size and everything. The P-M should be fine.
U sure a P4 is faster in game than an P4 ??
http://www.ajp.co.uk/?show=wide_info&id=D900T-X
The P4 can be pushed much faster than a P-M, a P-M gets better Performance Per Whatt thou. So its a toss up.
I know a lot of people who game happily on a P-M, but if you MUST have great performance something like that EE edition P4 is better.
P-Ms also Speedstep which P4s don't. Gives an advantage in heat output / battery life.
Overclocked Pentium-Ms are as fast as the Opteron 144/146s that people are currently raving about. For most applications much faster than any Pentium 4.
but fact of the matter is a 3.8ghz P4, will outperform a 2.something ghz P-M.
So if you really MUST have speed P4 is the one.
if your sane, P-M is the one, notice how P4 laptop battery life times are less than a third of a similar PM one.
For gaming, the Pentium-M will be faster.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheAnimus
really depends on what is been game it is and how its been written. Whilst I'm not even going to pretend the P4 is a good CPU. The P-M beats it at predictive branching, at those speeds the P4 is still going to get more MIPS, and FLOPS.
I'd still like to say that i'd get the P-M myself.